Doctor Who was the second highest rated show of the day, behind Strictly Come Dancing which had an average of 9.66 million viewers. Casualty was third with 4.61 million watching.Rugby scored highest on ITV, but with none of the home countries playing, just 4.04 million watched New Zealand defeat France.The rating, the highest figure for the series this year, was slightly boosted by the late start to the episode, meaning the calculation includes the remnants of the Strictly audience. However detailed figures show the audience rising during the show once the Strictly audience had departed to average around 4.63 million.

The BBC's iPlayer performance figures reported that the episode was requested 1.147m times to the end of the month, making it the thirteenth most requested programme in October - it was beaten by episodes ofDoctor Foster, The Great British Bakeoff, Strictly Come Dancing, From Darkness and The Apprentice (the figure does not include requests via Virgin Media or Sky).

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